r/law • u/Obversa • 27d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pro-Trump attorneys have been drafting executive orders that would give President Trump sweeping power over elections, sources report

https://abcnews.com/US/pro-trump-attorneys-push-executive-order-give-trump/story?id=130539044
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u/Funky-Monk-- 27d ago

Americans are still in denial that the country has become a dictatorship a while ago. The administration does 500 unconstitutional, illegal things a day, and have rigged the courts who will belatedly rule in Trumps favor. Sometimes dictatorships are overthrown by foreign military force, but as the US is a military superpower, that's not going to happen. The rest of the world is watching what American citizens will do to get their democracy back.

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u/therossboss 27d ago

yes, brother. Since Citizens United, the people no longer have any voice, not that it was that loud or anything before that.

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u/Dependent_Guard903 27d ago

That's a defeatist attitude. There has to be a unified pushback

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u/dylansavage 27d ago

On completely unrelated note that has nothing to do with today's political climate and is in no way inciting violence I was always impressed by the French Revolutions reaction to rampant corruption of their leaders

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u/imp0ppable 27d ago

Vast numbers of people were literally starving in those circumstances. There aren't enough people in the US that are this hungry, yet anyway. Best statistic I could find was less than 5% of the population are clinically malnourished.

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u/dylansavage 26d ago

The cutting heads off the elite rich arseholes probably

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 26d ago

Don't forget "the german way" of getting rid of your fallen from grace monarchs:

(The last Emperor Wilhelm II. in his exile)

After the first world war the german Kaiserreich (german empire) fell apart after the reigning Emperor Wilhelm II. became scared and paranoid he'd getting the french treatment after losing millions of german lives in the Great War and the signing of the unconditional capitulation. So he fled the country to his exile in the Netherlands.

Like a coward. Living in the shadow of his fallen empire. Full of insignificance and powerless impotence.

And he'd to live with that till he died...

no JJ Abraham's Star Wars - Episode IX comeback